Michelle Lopez

Michelle Lopez is a sculptor born in 1970. Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Michelle Lopez received her B.A. in literature and art history in 1992 at Barnard College, and she received her M.F.A in 1994 at the School of Visual Arts. She has been exhibiting since 1996 in various groups shows and has had solo exhibitions at Feature Inc., Deitch Projects and Simon Preston Gallery. Lopez was a recipient of the MacDowell Colony Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts grant, among others.^[1]

Morgan Falconer describes Lopez's work as "All of these objects are marvelously poised between being one strange thing and something stranger still." ^[2]

Lopez first gained critical attention with her sculpture "Boy"; a leather covered Honda that made its debut in 1999 as part of P.S.1 / MoMA’s Greater New York exhibition.^[3]

Her work is represented by Simon Preston Gallery. Education: BA, Barnard College, Columbia University. MFA, School of Visual Arts.. One-person Exhibitions Include: Simon Preston Gallery, NY; LA><Art, LA; Paule Anglim, San Francisco; Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan; Deitch Projects, NY; Feature Inc., NY. Group Exhibitions Include: Public Art Fund Metrotech Installation; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center; Brooklyn Museum, Artist’s Space; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; California Biennial, OCMA, Los Angeles. Publications Include: Artforum, Art in America, Time Out New York, The New York Times, The Village Voice, Sculpture Magazine. Awards and Honors Include: Best Public Art, Art in America; NYFA 9/11 Grant; UC Berkeley Research Faculty Grants. Artist Residencies and Fellowships Include: Banff Centre, Alberta; MacDowell Colony; Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.^[4]

External links

• 'NINA IN POSITION' By Holland Cotter, New York Times, February 15, 2008
• Michelle Lopez at Simon Preston by Morgan Falconer, Frieze Magazine, 2008
• How to Have Courage: A Conversation with Michelle Lopez by Andrew Cornell Robinson
• Michelle Lopez's artist profile page on the Simon Preston Gallery website.

Notes

1. ^ http://www.artleak.org/lopez.html
2. ^ http://www.frieze.com/shows/review/michelle_lopez/
3. ^ http://www.frieze.com/shows/review/michelle_lopez/
4. ^ http://mfafineart.sva.edu/faculty.htm

Persondata
Name	Michelle Lopez
Alternative names
Short description	Sculptor, installation and visual artist. Based in New York City.
Date of birth	1970
Place of birth	Philippines
Date of death
Place of death